Gordon H. Chang


Gordon Hsiao-shu Chang is an American professor at Stanford University and an author.

Education

Chang earned a degree in history from Princeton University. Chang earned his PhD in history from Stanford University.

Career

In 1991, Chang joined Stanford University. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities and a professor of American history at Stanford University. Chang's academic interests lie in the connection between race and ethnicity in America, and American foreign relations. Chang has written on Asian-American history and US–East Asian interactions, and he also researches the fields of U.S. diplomacy, the U.S.-Soviet cold war, modern China and international security.
In 1990, Chang's wrote his first book Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972. In 1997, Chang's second book was Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Wartime Writing, 1942-1945. It was about an American professor at Stanford University who was interned because he was of Japanese ancestry.. Chang's other books include Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration, Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 , and Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China.
In 2015, Chang was inducted as a member of Committee of 100.
In April 2019, Chang became a senior associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University.

Works